A collection of the most inappropriate, confusing, poorly translated, and mind-bogglingly bizarre signs from around the world
Few things amuse and appall newspaper readers as much as the abuse, misuse, mistranslation, and outright mangling of their language. So, for the past three years the DailyTelegraph has run a weekly feature inviting members of the public to send in photographs of menus, health and safety warnings, road signs, advertisements, headlines, and personal columns��nything in which the language has gone egregiously, hilariously, and, usually, unintentionally wrong. The published selection of the very best images attracts more than 300,000 online visitors every week, and thousands of submissions from around the world. Here is the very best of Sign Language, some never published online, to offer a timely warning about the imperiled state of modern English.
